A/N: Yosh! So, I'm back.
I got some awesomesauce reviews from a bunch of you guys. Thank you for the reviews! Muah! Free cookies for all who gave me a review! :)
Anyways, I just wanna remind you guys, School's coming up very soon so I don't think I'll be able to update very much by that time. So, I hope you guys would bear with me. I'm still fidgety nervous about the upcoming school year since I'll be studying in a new school. Completely different from all the previous schools I've studied in, so I'm trying not to be completely overwhelmed. But still…
I can't even register the fact into my fried brain that I'm already in third year. I'm a junior! Can you believe it? I can't, actually.
So, before you throw your shoe at me for ranting about my miserable life, here's the next chapter. Enjoy! :)
Wait, the disclaimer.
Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto.
PREVIOUS CHAPTER RECAP:
"Oi, it's not the time for that. Where is Hinata?" Tenten slightly worried where their meek bestfriend went off to.
Before they could even stand up to go search for her, they heard a muted thud.
They bent down to look under their table where the sound came from, only to see the person who they were looking for. Hinata was dressed in a lavender spaghetti-strapped dress with a white bow around its waist.
"It's Hina-chan." Sakura gasped at the sight of the girl. She was a mess, completely wasted. Her cheeks were flushed scarlet because of the effect of alcohol running throughout her system.
Tenten helped Sakura heave Hinata up to make her sit down beside Sakura.
"What happened to you, Hina-chan?" Sakura asked worried, knowing that Hinata was never really a fan of alcohol just like her.
The girl just swayed unsteadily while Sakura supported her weight to prevent her from slamming head-first on their glass table.
"How many glasses did you drink, Hinata?" Sakura asked, concerned, her medical instincts kicking in.
"Just two glasses of gin." She mumbled back in her soft voice.
"What? Just two glasses and you're already down for the count?" Ino asked, shocked.
Sakura glared at Ino to shut up. Fortunately, the obnoxious blonde did.
"Her system's not used to alcohol. That's why she gets easily drunk." Sakura explained while supporting Hinata's sagging form.
"Wah? What system? Did Hina-chan become a robot?" Ino asked, her words slurring while her eyes were half-lidded, clear indications of being drunk.
Sakura slapped her palm to her forehead then sighed. Ignoring the blonde's stupid question, she said,
"Do you wanna go home now, Hina-chan?"
The girl was unable to answer since she was already sleeping snugly on Sakura's lap. Sakura sighed then just continued to brush the girl's dark purple hair away from her face.
While Hinata was snoozing off and Sakura was just absentmindedly stroking Hinata's hair, Ino and Tenten were up to no good, as they always are when they're drunk and brain dead. They were having one of their occasional who-gets-drunk-first contests. It was a stupid game, in her opinion, since the two were already drunk before they even start the match.
But she guessed that the whole point of the game was to see who was a better drunkard and who had better alcohol tolerance between the two.
As the waiter placed the 12th shot in front of Tenten and Ino, the two competitors stared at each other. Tenten's face was set in a mocking grin directed at Ino since Tenten won the last time, while Ino was glaring at Tenten indignantly with her eyebrows scrunched up in determination.
The waiter took out his stopwatch. While the two contestants were busy having their stare-off match, people started to gather around to see a blonde clad in a blue asymmetrical dress with a yellow belt wound just below her chest to emphasize her curves and a brunette wearing a maroon knee-length tube dress that were busy glaring at each other. You could visibly see the sparks fly everytime their eyes would meet.
Sakura was amused at these two idiots. The waiter glanced at the two opponents vying for victory. When the two simultaneously nodded in assent, the waiter yelled,
"Start!"
The two fumbled and managed to drink two shots in just a minute. This continued on and on, until Ino was at her last shot while Tenten still had two more. The howls of laughter and people betting who will win can be easily heard from where Sakura was seated. It seemed that either of the two options were correct: the two were too busy with their fight, or they were too drunk to notice that they have became the bar's laughing stock and the people's own source of entertainment as they watched the two drunk women take swigs from time to time. Maybe both, she assumed.
Because of this the two were intoxicated more than ever, their swaying heads and slurred words were worse than before. Ino snatched the last shot and glanced at Tenten who was sprawled ungracefully onto their table. Ino was half-lidded and swaying on her own seat when she smirked at the almost-sleeping Tenten.
"You ready to lose, Ten-chan?" She slurred out.
At this rhetorical comment, the brunette straightened up and glared at the blonde with droopy eyes. She quickly shot out her hand and grabbed the second-to-the-last glass and downed it in record time. When both of them had only one shot left, they glared menacingly at each other then, concurrently, snatched their shots and downed it.
Tenten was halfway gulping down the clear substance called alcohol when she finally passed out. She fell on the table with a loud thump. The glass in her hand poured its remaining contents a few inches away from Tenten's dozing face then proceeded to roll towards the far end of the table. The waiter grabbed it before it plunged head-first onto the hard floor. A few seconds after Tenten's passing-out episode, a hand slammed the glass shot onto the table.
"I WON!" Ino chanted on and on in a cheery voice. She stuck her tongue out childishly in front of the lightly snoring Tenten's face. She even clapped her hands a couple of times in pure glee. There were a few groans and cheers from the watching crowd. The ones who groaned were apparently the ones who were betting for Tenten. It appears that it's the blonde's reign tonight when it comes to alcohol. Her shrieks of oh-so-sweet victory became softer and softer until it was a mere whisper. At her tenth mumble of 'I WON!' she passed out as well.
"Great. Just great. Their kidneys are definitely all black because of the amount of alcohol they consume. Except Hinata probably." Sakura grumbled.
Out of the four of them she was the only one sober enough to walk straight while the three were sleeping soundly. She sighed then hauled Hinata up to drag her out of the club and towards the parking lot. It was a tough job but she managed to dump Hinata inside her car. They used Sakura's car since they knew she would be the only one clear-headed enough to drive home without wrecking the car.
She was grumbling to herself as she proceeded to haul Ino next. When she was done stuffing the sleep talking blonde girl inside the car, she returned to the club to retrieve Tenten. She paid the waiter and grabbed Tenten. She slung Tenten's arm around her shoulder and advanced on to heave her out of the club and onto the vehicle.
She was slightly sweating when she was done towing her friends inside the confines of the car. She glanced at the clock to check the time.
"Ugh, it's already two-thirty in the morning." She griped.
She pulled out of the parking lot and onto the highway. She headed first to Tenten's apartment. She carried the girl inside the building and onto the elevator. When Sakura reached Tenten's room, she dumped the sleeping girl on the floor and fumbled inside Tenten's clutch bag for her keys. After a minute of shuffling through Tenten's greatly disorganized bag, she got the keys and shoved it into the keyhole.
She turned on the lights and dragged Tenten onto her queen-sized bed. When she was done, she looked at the girl only to see she was still sleeping as soundly as ever. She chuckled. She went out and locked the brunette's door. Then she entered the car and sped off to Hinata's condo.
She repeated what she just did with Tenten. The only difference was Hina's keys were easily found since she was a tidy person. Then she sighed in relief when she managed to drag two of her friends to their respective abodes without getting hurled at by vomit, two down one more to go. She then headed off to Ino's condo.
Once she reached the destination, she grabbed the blonde's small baby blue clutch bag then towed Ino inside her condo unit. She dumped the girl's bag on the couch. Then, she dragged Ino to her bed.
"Damn it. I'm never going with them again. Man, I'm thirsty." She grumbled then shuffled off to Ino's kitchen. She grabbed a canned soda and gulped its contents in no time. She left the blonde in her room to sleep then went out to head home as well.
She started the car and sped off to her own apartment. She was just driving absentmindedly when she saw a dark figure in her peripheral vision. She immediately stomped on the brakes and looked more closely to figure out why a person was lying in the middle of the street.
When she was positive that someone was really there, her medical instincts kicked in once again, she got out of her car and approached the figure. It was pretty dark when she was looking at him previously from the confines of her car but now, she can clearly see who the person was. And she had to blink twice, shake her head, and pinch herself to know that she wasn't dreaming and what she was seeing was completely real and not a figment of her wild imagination.
A/N: Okay, you guys. I really need some reviews about some ideas. I'm currently experiencing an annoying writer's block. Hope you guys could help. Please review. :)
Ugh, I'm out. *sniffle* Annoying cold. -_-
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